captioning funded by cbs good morning to our viewers in the west. it is monday, october 15th, 2012. welcome to cbs this morning. the campaigns are tightly focused on tomorrow night's debate. a new poll shows the presidential race is effectively tied. >> we hear from flying felix baumgartner after his daring free fall from space. a top hollywood banker's own words could haunt him in his police brewalpy lawsuit. we begin this morning with a look at today's eye opener. your world in 90 seconds. >> even if he changes his style, he can't change his record and he can't change his policies. >> president and mitt romney get ready for round two. >> presidential candidates are hard to find.

they're getting ready for tuesday night's presidential debate. >> it is going great. >> what's the president going to do? is he going to take this behavior of biden's and put some reasoning behind it? >> the smirking. the acting like a 14-year-old while on camera. he was supposed to be the adult. >> i am monkey strong, brother! the sky high day for felix baumgartner. his record jump from space sent him plunging faster than the speed of sound. >> i'd like to give a special one finger salute to all of the folks who said he was going to -- >> the pakistani schoolgirl shot by taliban gunmen is being sent to britain for medical treatment. >> therefore saying you'd like to create an islamic state in syria. >> translator: what's wrong with that. the space shuttle "endeavour" completed a very long journey home across los angeles with some unforeseen obstacles. over 100 people are hurt

after a fireworks display goes horribly wrong in china. one of the fireworks shoots into the crowd. the detroit tigers have come to yankee stadium and taken the first two. >> the cardinals take game one. offensive coordinator tom -- >> i come in around 6:30. i just say the opposite of whatever rachel maddow says the night before. >> all that matters. >> mitt romney has laid it all out there. >> i'm going to ring the bell here. go back to your corners. >> on "cbs this morning." >> it's not an early halloween party. it's new york's comic con. >> a great place to find out what batman would look like if he ate his feelings. welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm charlie rose in new york. norah o'donnell is in washington.

president obama and governor romney have quit campaigning for now. they're too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> in a new politico/george washington university battleground poll shows the president leading romney by one point, 49% to 48%. that effectively means the race is tied nationally. nancy cordes is in williamsburg, virginia, where the president spent all weekend prepping for the debate. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah, and to our viewers in the west. while the obama campaign wants a different outcome from this debate, it's no surprise they are preparing differently, too. with fewer distractions. less campaigning. more practice time. and no more talk of the president's rusty debate skills. >> hello, everybody! hello, hello! i brought some food. >> reporter: the president surfaced from debate prep just once this weekend when he dropped off four pizzas at an obama campaign office here in williamsburg. reporters asked him how prep was going. >> it is going great. >> reporter: his demeanor was a

marked shift from 14 days ago when a supporter in nevada asked the very same question before the first debate. >> they're making me do my homework. >> reporter: after being outperformed by governor romney in denver and dropping in the polls as a result, president obama and his aides have shaken up their debate prep strategy. spending three days holed up at this sprawling resort on the james river. unlike last time in las vegas, there are no breaks for sightseeing or for campaign rallies. gone, too, are attempts to lower expectations for the president's debate performance. instead, his top aides like david axelrod are promising a passionate, more energized mr. obama. >> i think he's going to be aggressive in making the case for -- for his view of where we should go as a country and a country that's built around a growing, thriving middle class. not this top down theory that governor romney has. >> reporter: one thing that hasn't changed is the circle of

advisers who are helping the president prepare. mr. obama told a miami radio host, no one but him is to blame for his flat first debate performance. >> i do think that on television what was clear is that i was being too restrained when mr. romney was telling his tall tales. >> reporter: but romney says the president is just making excuses and argues his surging poll numbers in most battleground states are a sign the momentum has shifted his way. >> his campaign is about smaller and smaller things. and our campaign is about bigger and bigger crowds, fighting for a bright future. >> reporter: governor romney has now left the campaign trail. he is back home in massachusetts preparing for the debate with his advisers. and ohio senator rob portman, who has been playing president obama in romney's debate prep, says the main change they have made to their preparations this time around is that they are getting ready for a more combative president obama. charlie and norah, back to you.

>> frank luntz is a republican strategist and cbs news political analyst. good morning. >> good morning. >> so aggressive. what does that mean and what risk are there for the president? >> if i am barack obama, i'm focusing on one number. 47%. and i'm trying to drive that home as much as i possibly can. particularly because it's a live studio audience. they're the ones who are going to be asking the questions. which one of you think you fall in the 47% and governor romney, who do you represent here and who do you not? if i'm mitt romney, i'm going to talk about the two words "you deserve." you deserve to get your questions answered. mr. president, you were asked a direct question. you choose to attack me. how are you going to work with congress when all you do is attack? >> is this format easier for one or the other? >> it's easier and more difficult for both. by the way, this is the more compelling format. i know journal iists hate the tn hall because they want to be the ones that ask the question and the follow-up because they know the facts. but the american people love the town hall format because the

questions are asked the way real people would ask them. >> what do you expect romney to do? >> i think romney is going to follow most of what he did the first time with one difference. i think he's going to be very careful with how the president challenges him and that he's going to continue to say something to the effect of, there you go again. now you're on the attack. he's got to make barack obama the negative campaigner. over the last ten days mitt romney's favorability has gone up significantly. obama's has stayed about where it's been. >> norah? >> frank, you hear obama's advisers trying to make the case that obama's rusty with this kind of town hall format. that he's only done one of these town halls in the last night months. as president obama has done 58 town halls. is the format a challenge for the president? >> i don't think it is. because your whole life, everything that you do is meant and is designed to interact with people. and as the president for the last four years, he's had all

these cameras on him. it's not difficult. the challenge for obama is in a word "pivot." how do you pivot from talking about the way things are to what mitt romney has said and what mitt romney will do. the danger is when the pivot goes negative and if obama's seen as being the candidate on the attack that's not good for him. >> frank, we've seen this interesting new poll out from politico this morning that shows romney's favorability rating is now at 51%. he has struggled with that. has something changed in this race? >> yes. and it's the debate. and the fact is this debate tomorrow night, everybody's going to watch. those debates have so much more impact than the 30-second ads that you see across the country. norah, i'm not looking at the national poming data. i'm watching a single state. ohio. where ohio goes is where america goes. >> what does romney have to do in ohio to make up the disadvantage he has right now, 45 points?

>> this is going to be heresy. i think mitt romney tomorrow should mention ohio. i think he should address it directly. people here are no different than the people in cleveland and columbus and cincinnati. i think he has to go directly, this is his only chance to do it with a national audience. he has to talk about the day-to-day concerns of day-to-day americans. it's not are you better off than you were four years ago, is america better off than it was four years ago. >> frank luntz, thank you very much. >> pleasure. syria's government this morning is promising to repair historic mosque in aleppo damaged in this week's fighting. last night on "60 minutes" clarissa ward reported from aleppo it is the scene of some of the worst violence in syria's civil war. she found islamist militants are now taking charge in some rebel-held areas. ward confronted one leader who told her captured government soldiers had been treated fairly. but, in fact, they'd actually been executed. >> when we went back, we looked at some of the video clips that your men had given us.

and i wonder if you could take a look at this one and tell me what is going on in this clip. can you tell me what that video is showing? >> translator: well, those were government soldiers in the fighting during the battle. we kind of arrested them. >> what sentence were they given? >> that's something that the judges know more about than i do. >> because we have another version of the video. it's a longer version. it ends quite differently. [ gunfire ] you know about these executions? >> translator: no. i was not aware. >> still, he defended the decision to execute the soldiers, calling it an eye for

an eye. but when we pointed out that it was his men who were responsible, this was all he could say. >> translator: i really don't know. what can i say? >> clarissa ward joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. >> take me back to this moment we just saw in this confrontation. >> when i watch it now even i get this pit in my stomach. because in any situation like that where you're confronting with someone with a video and you're saying, hey, you're a liar, basically, it's -- it requires a lot of boldness. it's extremely uncomfortable to have to confront someone like that. particularly in this situation given the nature of the situation on the ground in syria. given the nature of the man himself. given the fact that i'm a woman. it was particularly frightening. >> how did it end? >> it ended, you know, we had given ourselves a ten minutes in and out policy. we drove straight to the border. there was a moment where there was a very clear flicker of anger across his face.

it's difficult to put an exact number on it. what you're seeing is that these islamist groups, particularly groups that have foreign fighters or foreign backing from saudi arabia, from qatar, they have the most traction on the ground. they have the best weapons. they have the best training. they have the best fighters in many cases. >> weapons from where? >> weapons mostly coming from saudi arabia, qatar, other gulf countries. you saw in today's paper the u.s. has the policy essentially of not arming the rebels directly, but allowing or possibly assisting in indirectly arming the rebels through countries like these gulf countries, saudi arabia and qatar. and the problem you have is many private citizens from these countries, in fact, don't espouse democratic values, per

se. but support more militant islamic groups. >> clarissa, let me ask you about that "new york times" piece this morning that says a lot of these arms being supplied by saudi arabia and qatar are going into the hands of these hard line islamic jihadists and not these more secular opposition groups. is this a blow to u.s. strategy there? >> i think it absolutely is. because there's a very real sense that the u.s. has lost an opportunity here by taking such a hands-off approach to the syrian conflict. they've really lost the opportunity to influence the -- what's happening on the ground and to ensure that groups and opposition members who do espouse more democratic values have any real success or power or influence. >> clarissa, you were in damascus just about a year ago. how have things changed? what's the feeling among the opposition there? >> the change is dramatic. when i was in damascus a year ago, people were talking about freedom. they were talking about dignity. they were talking about democracy. nobody was talking about

religion. now people -- opposition fighters are calling this a jihad. there's been a real shift. but i would say that that shift is the result of the desperation of the syrian people. the fighting has been going on for more than a year and a half. the people of syria have paid an unbelievably high price for it. they feel that western democracies, particularly the u.s., have left them to die. >> clarissa, thank you. >> thank you. now to felix baumgartner. the austrian daredevil trying to become the first skydiver ever to break the speed of sound. on sunday he made that record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. mark strassman is at the scene of the jump in roswell, new mexico. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. at one point 8 million people watched the sky dive live on youtube. that shattered the online site's record. they saw what the red bull stratus team saw here. one man's high drama in high altitude. felix baumgartner stood alone

with his thoughts 24 miles above new mexico. >> you've become so humble you cannot think about breaking records anymore. the only thing that you want is you want to come back alive. >> reporter: no one had ever fallen to earth quite like this. >> there's the release. >> reporter: his climb to earth stratosphere has taken 2 1/2 hours. baumgartner inside a pressurized suit and capsule was hoisted heavenward by a 55-story helium balloon. >> fox trot 6. >> reporter: the 43-year-old austrian skydiver almost had to call it off on the way up. his visor has fogged over after a heater in his helmet quit. >> this is serious, joe. i do not think i have face heating. >> reporter: joe was joe kittinger in mission control. in 1960 kittinger left from 102,000 feet. a record that stood for 52 years until he helped train baumgartner. >> start the cameras. our guardian angel will take

care of you. >> reporter: baumgartner, fogged visor or not, was jumping from 128,000 feet. but almost instantly, he courted catastrophe. his body began to flat spin, rotating wildly like a top. >> i was fighting all the way down to regain control. because i wanted to break the speed of sound. >> reporter: he did regain control. and within the jump's first 30 seconds became the first human in free fall to break mach one. >> i'd like to give a special one fingered salute to all the folks that said he was going to come up -- >> reporter: baumgartner spent four minutes and 20 seconds in free fall, just shy of kittinger's record, before opening his shoot at 5,000 feet and gliding to earth about 40 miles from where he launched. five years of training for the highest, fastest free fall ever. >> i've never anticipated it was going to be so tough. sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.

>> reporter: what you saw was no stunt. at least not to nasa. they're studying baumgartner's space suit and his experience with the sky jump. one more thing, norah. he says he's through with high altitude sky dives. he wants the job now as a pilot for a rescue helicopter. >> all right. mark strassman, thank you. tomorrow we'll hear from the daredevil in his first interview since that big jump only on cbs this morning. now to the latest in the saga of malala yousafzai. she has been flown from pakistan to britain for further treatment including more surgery and therapy. elizabeth palmer is in pakistan's capital, islamabad. elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: malala's already moved twice from one pakistani military hospital to another. now she's finally been sent

overseas. she was put on to a special equipped jet early this morning. she's off to britain for more aftercare and special therapy. very little real information on how she's doing. although we heard over the weekend her condition was stable and that doctors had reduced her sedation to see if they could determine how much damage has been done to her brain. we did hear from a diplomat who's seen her enroute to britain. he says they do expect her to make steady if slow progress. we've just come from her hometown up on the border with afghanistan. we saw the bus that she was sitting in when she was attacked by the gunmen. police told us there that although the attack happened on a relatively busy road, no witnesses have come forward. but on a bright note, we went to the school that she championed so passionately. you know, it's full. all the girl students have come to school. they told us that they and their parents, even though they've been frightened by this, are refusing to be intimidated.

charlie and norah? >> time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. t"the washington post" says social security determined the cost of living increase for next year. benefits will rise between 1% and 2%. one of the lowest increases since the 1970s. the typical retiree can expect between $12 and $24 more per month. the chicago sun times reports congressman jesse jackson jr. allegedly used campaign money to decorate his home. the federal government is investigating jackson's campaign

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hollywood banker brian mulligan is suing the los angeles police over severe beating. but now his own words may be used against him. >> i know this sounds crazy. >> this morning, we look at the newly released tape that backs up the lapd story. >> l.a. drivers know sometimes you're late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour". we'll follow the orbiter's last ride on cbs "this morning". "this portion of cbs "this morning" is sponsored by hershey's drop.

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this is a cbs5 eyewitness news morning update. 7:26 your time. i'm frank with your cbs5 headlinings. a person shot at a wedding reception, the victim shot in the arm, taken to the hospital. no arrests have been made. giants hope to bounce back tonight in game two of the national championship series. san francisco losing last night to the cardinals 6-4. nearly came back. tonight's game starts at 5 tonight at at&t park. the nfl is expected to announce today if san francisco will host the super bowl in 2016 or 2017. the game if picked will be played at the new stadium and

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good morning, the south bay is getting peppered with accidents and likely because of this. check out this thick fog. traffic is buried. it's jammed up. and you can barely see the traffic because the fog is so thick. we have a number of fog advisories. for several of the bridges, coming across the golden gate and heading across the san francisco, and both directions close the at double fly because of the head on collision. that is traffic. for more on the weather here's more. high pressure building overhead compressing down near the surface. cloudy skies and we're starting out with with that fog. temperatures running in the 50s right now. by the afternoon, that fog's going to lift. mid-80s inland, 60s coast side. next couple l of days the fog goes away. hot temperatures by the middle of the week. ,,,,,,,,

. with all due respect this is a bunch of mala rmrky. >> a bunch of malarky? what does that mean. >> it's irish. >> irish means i come over and slap that dumb look on your face. because you're younger than me. let me tell you something, buddy, there's gym strong and there's old man strong, okay. you want to know my workout? when the amtrak breaks down on my morning commute i strip down to my tighty whities, i push that [ bleep ] all the way to washington. [ laughter ] >> good stuff. ing? >> go ahead. >> they did. they had a fun time with that debate certainly. i'm sure biden would find that

funny as well as paul ryan. welcome back to cbs "this morning". i'm norah o'donnell in washington. charlie rose is in new york. back in august we first brought you this story of brian mulligan the former tv executive who became one of hollywood's biggest investment bankers. he says two los angeles officers beat and injured him for no reason at all. >> mulligan sued the lapd for brutality and the department launched an investigation. this morning there's a new twist in this story. john miller from lapd deputy commission certificate here. >> charlie just when you think this story can't get stranger, it does. brian mulligan is a force to be reckoned with in the entertainment business. a former chief financial officer of seagrams. the former chairman of fox television now financing movies for deutsche bank in hollywood. this case is fairly low rent. it centers on allegations that mulligan may have been high on bath salts when he had his run

in with lapd. that may be a lie and we have uncovered new information. this is what prominent investment banker brian mulligan looked like last may after his violent encounter with los angeles police officers. his lawyer at the time claimed the assault was unprovoked. >> here's a guy that was unarmed, that had committed to crimes, and why they are using this kind of force to take him into custody is just absolutely mind-boggling. >> mulligan's story was a wild one. he said he had three strange encounters with police that night. and that they were hunting him in the streets. the lapd says mulligan seemed out of sorts and they went as far as to help him check into this hotel. but police found the banker back in the streets hours later trying to jump into moving cars. >> he took a fighting stance and charged at the officers and it was at that point that the

officers, you know, grabbed a hold of him to control him, took him to the ground and handcuffed him. >> both sides agree on this. mulligan one of the top bankers in hollywood was miles from home in a seedy neighborhood with $5,000 in cash. but they don't agree on this. the arrest report says mulligan told police he had used marijuana and ingested bath salts four days earlier. using bath salts which drug users calls white lightning can bring on symptoms of hallucination, panic attacks and violence which can go a long way to explain the behavior that police described that night. but mulligan's lawyers at the time said the allegations of bath salts were lies made up to justify a beating of a prominent hollywood financier. >> the police officers are

trying to excuse themselves from the beating of mr. mulligan. there's a lot of things in here that's ridiculous. >> but now cbs "this morning" obtained an audiotape of a glendale police department encounter with brian mulligan that occurred two days before the lapd incident. >> i know this sounds crazy but i feel there's people following me, i feel like there was a chopper, do you hear a chopper? >> we don't have a helicopter up in glendale right now. we don't come up until 9:00. >> okay. maybe i'm nuts. >> you taking any medication or you diagnosed with anything? >> later in the conversation mulligan admits he recently had taken bath salts the very drug that his lawyers deny he ever used. >> is there any reason for somebody to be following you? you're not like a wanted fugitive, are you >> i, i will tell you what i, i

bought some white lightning stuff which was bought at a store. so then i bought some more, i said this stuff -- >> small container. >> yeah. >> snort it? >> yes. >> bath salt? >> don't know what it is. >> how many times did you use it? >> probably 20 times. >> before they parted ways the glendale police officer offered mulligan this piece of advice. >> there's some residual effects to the stuff you were using, 20 times is quite a bit. >> john miller, has the lapd seen this tape? >> the lapd has an investigation into mulligan's

against the lapd saying this was an unprovoked beating. this doesn't change that. that process continues. the lapd's investigation continues. what this does is brings up a credibility issue when his lawyers say these things are untrue and here he is two days before the l.a. incident having this conversation with a police officer from another department. >> bath salts as a drug? >> bath salts have nothing do with taking a bath. this is a commercial name for -- >> really? >> exactly. a commercial name for a synthetic drug that's a first cousin of methamphetamine. that's why it brings on all the same symptoms, paranoia, panic attack, delusions. it's a factor of behavior. remember what the lapd said. they said right before they took him down he arched his hands like a bear, snarled at them and growled and seemed ready to charge which for some ration enamel person wouldn't be too

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taking place. alan, good morning. >> reporter: good day. today's proceedings are based on evidence from the ship's black box recorder. documents before the court ran to 207 pages. they include navigational details and most important conversations on the bridge of the "costa concordia." more than 100 lawyers representing survivors and the families of the 32 passengers and crew who died have shown up for the hearing. their target is not the captain but the american owners of the crew line. this attorney's clients are asking for $10 million. >> what we want to make clear is that this accident was not the cause of the collision. the accident was caused by an avalanche of negligence. >> reporter: a $300 million salvage operation is underway to pull the liner off the rocks where she is lodged. the chunk of the reef the ship hit has been removed from the hull. it weighed in at 95 tons.

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shop, passed over the infamous 405 freeway, and passed time outside of a strip mall. in the final stretch it zigzagged down martin luther king jr. boulevard navigating pine trees on its way to its final resting place. apparently "endeavour" was struggling with the idea of retirement, but it ended up here at the science center without a single scratch. its final mission, number 26, now complete. >> i loved the sign that said "shuttle crossing." that's a keeper. all right. you got any old cell phones you don't know what to do with? >> many. >> i know. if you got an old cell phone, how about trying a special atm that takes your old one and gives you money back? yeah. we'll show you how it works on cbs "this morning." cbs "this morning".

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this is a cbs5 eyewitness news morning update. good morning everyone it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. tomorrow there will be a memorial in san francisco for u.s. ambassador chris stevens, the top envoy to libya was killed in an attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, among those in attendance will be diane fine stein. and the service is at 4:30 on tuesday and is open to the public. b.a.r.t. service is back to normal after an hour long shut down. a man was found walking through the tube shortly before 7. all trains headed to the east bay were stalled. police took the train, found the man and arrested him. stay tuned for traffic and weather in just a moment.

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unfortunately it's another bad morning. we had a very early morning fender bender on the upper deck on treasure island. it's stacked up on all the approaches as well. huge delays. fog is really creating an issue for a lot of areas of our morning commute including across the south bay, that is all different incident ons 280, 101, the guadalupe parkway, and the visibility is bed and highway 1 1 -- at devil's slide blocking both direction offense highway 1. that is a traffic. here's your forecast. a lot of gray outside, thick fog over the bay area. be careful. the fog's going to lift and as we head toward the afternoon we're going to see a lot of blue out there around most of the bay area. high pressure going to strengthen today, 50s right now. by the afternoon, 80s in the valley. 60s and 70s around the bay and 60s out toward the coastline. next couple of days, offshore

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♪ it is 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the presidental candidates are r getting ready for their second debate. author j.k. rowling will join us for her first live interview in the u.s. about her first novel after harry potter. now here is a look at what's happening in the world and what we've been covering on "cbs this morning." >> it is going great. >> president obama and governor mitt romney have quit campaigning for now. they're too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> if i'm barack obama, i'm focusing on one number, 47%. if i'm mitt romney, i'm going to

talk about the two words "you deserve." you deserve to get your questions answered, mr. president. you were asked a direct question, mr. president, all you do sat tack me. felix baumgartner made the record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. >> i was fighting to regain control because i wanted to break the speed of sound. >> the space agency is stud dig his suit and also studying his experience with the sky jump. l.a. drivers know that sometimes you're a little late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour." >> what do you think of the space shuttle? sglit's really big. >> this video shows a terrible car crash and seconds later a driver pops out. >> bath salts as a drug? >> bath salts have nothing to do with taking a bath. >> according to the u.s. anti-doping agency, lance armstrong not only used illegal steroids but also demanded the rest of his team use the drugs as well.

that's it. i'm never watching the tour de france again or before. >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king, norah o'donnell is in washington. president obama and governor mitt romney hold their second presidential debate tomorrow. both men have been preparing for several days now. a just-released nationwide poll shows the race is very tight. the president leads romney by one point, 49% to 48%. that's according to a politico-george washington university battleground poll. nancy cordes is with the obama campaign in williamsburg, virginia. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning again to all of you. well, obama campaign officials are working very hard to send the signal that the president is buckling down here in williamsburg, taking debate prep more seriously than he did the first time around when he now famously called it a drag. he's hold up at a large sprawling golf resort in williamsburg, but he's not

hitting the links. officials say about the only thing he's doing besides studying are eating, sleeping and hitting the gym. he did emerge yesterday for about a half hour to visit a local campaign office and drop off some pizzas. then he went back to the books. that's a big change from two weeks ago when he was preparing for the first debate at rae sort outside las vegas. he went sight seeing the the hoover dam. he held a big rally in vegas. none of that this time. a sign of how seriously the campaign is taking this debate, how worried they are, in fact, after polls showed him losing ground in so many battleground states. here is another big change, you guys. you might remember a couple weeks ago how hard the campaign was working to try to downplay expectations for the president. rebel they said he's rusty, he hasn't done a debate in four years. this isn't his best format. all that turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophesy. they're not doing any of that this time of around.

they're simply saying he's going to be more passionate and energized than he was in the first debate. governor romney is at home in massachusetts, preparing for the debate with his advisors. all week he's talking about how he's seeing a crescendo of enthusiasm in the wake of the first debate. he's hoping to build on that tuesday night when the two meet up in hempstead, new york. a 14-year-old pakistani girl shot and wounded last week for speaking out against the tall been was airlifted to england this morning for medical treatment. charlie daggett is in london tracking her journey. now she's an international story. good morning to you. >> that's exactly right. sources have confirmed that malala you safe is a will be treated at a special trauma hospital in birmingham, central england. we're told she's in stable condition, apparently stable enough to endure the medical

evacuation flight. doctors felt she should be trance feared here because she'll get the long-term medical care she now needs to fully recover from physical and psychological effects of the shooting. we're told she'll be treated at the queen elizabeth hospital in birmingham, specializing in treating in severe engineers and providing the kind of skull reconstruction and neurological treatment malala needs. the shooting of malala by taliban gunmen for promoting girl's education, horrified people in britain as well as pakistan and the united states. there's also a sense she will be safer here than in pakistan where the taliban has already threatened to kill her if she recovers. charlie d'agata, thank you. you may also remember the fear last year over giving the hpv vaccine to pre teen girls. a new study says girls who got the vaccine are no more sexually active than unvaccinated girls.

the hpv vaccine protects against cervical cancer linked to the human papillomavirus a sexually transmitted disease. very few of the girls who were vaccinated at age 11 or 12 had donny of those things. more senior citizens who took reverse mortgages are getting pushed out of their homes. federal and state regulators say older americans are being targeted by crooked lenders. some widows are facing eviction after their names were left off the deed by brokers. the default rate is about 9.5% of the loans, that's up 7% compared to over ten years ago. there are over 140 million twitter users in the world. a new survey found the average user is 28 years old, american, female. she talks mostly about family, her favorite color purple, her favorite word love. >> that's none of us.

except norah, you're wearing purple today. >> and i'm 28. >> and love is a good word. >> exactly. if only. >> you're right. take a look at this video from costa rica. you see a tour guide playing chicken with a giant crocodile. the guy teases a crock with a piece of meat. at one point he slips and goes down in the knee-high mud. he was quick enough to get out of the mud. i'm thinking what's he been drinking? >> i'm thinking gayle wouldn't do that. >> no. neither would charlie or anybody with any ,,,,

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♪ go on and take the money and ♪ whenever you buy a cell phone, you have to do something with your old one. most of us put it in a drawer and leave it. but there is a new option. a california company is giving out instant cash for old phones. as jeff glor reports, it's like using an atm to help the environment. >> place your device in the center of the test station. insert phone, don't forget your cash. >> remove cash.

>> if you happen to have any extra batteries. >> tom kelly, ceo of eco atm, not your typical money machine. >> you place your device inside the chamber. the system will close and identify the phone via the use of artificial intelligence software and will come up with a price. >> tullie says his 181 kiosks across the country are the first to be used this way, even though the idea of recycling mobile electronics isn't new. "wall street journal" columnist kate t state /* katy bow let. >> reporer: night only 20% of old phones are recycled but bore rhett says be careful.

>> they might drop the phones off and get the cash for it. i think a lot of people will make the mistake of not wiping their phone off in the first place. it could be a real privacy concern. >> reporter: they say they encourage users to erase data from devices and the company does their own final data wipe. as for concerns about stolen items, users must scan a photo i.d. and be digitally fingerprinted. it's becoming increasingly important. >> demand for cell phones which is going to double in about ten years is going to cause bottlenecks in the supply of critical materials used in the phones. >> consumers get to make sure those materials don't get wasted. more immediately -- >> times are tough. definitely. it's 16 bucks i didn't have. i'll take it. >> reporter: they get to make a little money. for "cbs this morning," jeff glor, new york. >> a chance to do good and do

well at the same time. >> never a bad idea to make a little money. where are your phones? i have a bunch just sitting in the drawer as you said. >> sitting on top of a drawer. >> now we need to figure out how to go to california and make a little money. good idea. is this the best time to buy a house or is renting still the right move for you? rebecca jarvis is here to help you with one of the biggest decisions you'll ever make. that story is coming up next on "cbs this morning." >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by mercedes-benz, the best or nothing. nothing. the kind of vehicle to move not just people... but an industry forward? are we there yet? are we really? [ male announcer ] are we there yet? we are, for now. introducing the all-new seven passenger gl. motor trend's 2013 sport utility of the year. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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ahead. tickets for the concerts in newark go on sale next friday. that's the 26th. welcome back to "cbs this morning." are you better off buying a home or renting one? according to the real estate website trilia, buying a home in a major metropolitan area is now 45% cheaper than renting. there are a lot of other factors involved in buying a house. rebecca jarvis is here with five things you need to know before you make the decision. hello. >> hello, gayle. >> see, i was always raised to believe if you can own it, you should own it. whether it's your house, whether it's your car. now after reading about you this morning, maybe that's not the best thing. >> i get that it is a psychological thing for a lot of people. a lot of people think of owning a home as a right of passage and something to plan for the future. but right now what people have to consider are a number of things. first one being how long are you planning on staying in that home? because what we saw in the housing crisis is that if you're trying to flip it or if you're trying to make a quick move, you will end up paying more on the

front end of that home more than likely than the value you get in your pocket when you walk away from it. so five to ten years is the amount of time you want to plan to stay in a home if you're going to be buying it. at least five to ten years. >> timing is important? >> it is. >> the second thing is location. isn't it always location? >> you cited the study at the beginning of this report. ultimately, location is going to play a role in whether or not you get a better deal renting or a better deal owning a home. in minneapolis right now, for example, rental prices are up 2.6%. whereas the cost of buying a home is down 30%. so in a place like minneapolis, my hometown, it makes more sense on a month to month basis what you're going to pay to buy a home in many cases whereas in tucson, arizona, which has been very battered, home prices there are very battered because of the housing crisis, it still makes more sense in many cases financially to rent. but you really have to do your diligence and look at your

specific location if you're thinking about making this decision. think about it from a what's it going to cost? what is the vacancy rate? the higher the vacancy rate, the more likely you are to find a deal. >> hidden costs are always an issue, no matter what you do. >> always. in both cases. and on the owning side, think about the fact that there are closing costs, there is insurance, there is maintenance, there is upkeep, the burden on your life of having all that money tied up in a home. whereas on the other side of things, rental prices, those costs are going up. 4% increases is what we can expect this year and next year in the cost of renting overall in the country. so that unexpected jump in renting is a cost. but maybe you feel like the cost of owning is too much of a mental burden for you so the cost of renting weighs out to something slightly less. you have that burden, that intangible burden. >> i always heard tax deductions are good if you own. >> and they certainly are. but the question is, how long

are they going to be here for? as washington grapples with balancing our budget, that's a big question going down the road. and so people have to think about this decision cannot be made simply because of a tax benefit. because that tax benefit may not forever be there. they used to be sacred cows, now they're on the table as negotiating tools. >> finally, how do you plan to pay for it? that is always something you should consider. >> 20% down payment is the going rate. at least 20% is what you have to anticipate putting down on that home. but your credit score is going to play into this, too. a lot of people see 3.41% for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. they think wow, these are near in order lows. ultimately, you have to have a decent credit score in order to access that kind of rate. so think about the fact that if you are planning to take up a mortgage on your home, you're going to ultimately be holding to that credit score as well. >> all right. good advice. that first one, five to ten years. i wish i would have known that earlier.

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this is a cbs5 eyewitness news morning update. good morning, 8:25 i'm frank mallicoat with your cbs5 news headline, the giants hope to bounce back tonight, game two of the national league championship series. giants lost last night to the cardinals, it was close though, 6-4. game time 5 at&t park. investigators are trying to figure out who shot and killed two people. the shootings happened around 5 in the evening yesterday on buchanan road and ventura drive. a man declared dead at the scene, and a female victim later died at the hospital. and the nfl is expected to announce today if san francisco will host the super bowl in 2016 or 2017. the game will be played at the

new $1.2 billion stadium in santa clara. traffic and weather on your monday coming up right after the break. ,,,,,, ,,,,

good morning, you may want to give yourself extra time. we have thick fog blanketing release. we have numerous problems, one way traffic control in effect. just south of pacifica.

that was a head on injury crash. elsewhere, you can see that fog covering our 880, 237 camera. pretty much gridlocked heading toward san jose and the bay bridge has been busy since an early morning fender bender. it is stacked up through the maize. that is your time saver traffic. for your forecast here's warren. >> visibility down to a quarter of a mile. be careful. you can see very thick there right now. even the thick fog inside the bay and some of the north bay valleys too. by the afternoon the fog is going to lift and it should be very very nice. temperatures until the 80s in the valley. maybe mid-80s in the warmer spots. 60s out toward the coastline. offshore winds on the way in the middle of the week. 90s in the valley, 70s toward the coast. ,,,,,,,,

♪ it is a busy morning outside our studios. some of those people waited up all night to see the creator of harry potter. >> they were not disappointed. she got here a few minutes ago. j.k. rowling, also known as rowling has a new book out. she will talk out about "the casual vacancy." welcome back to cbs "this morning".

i'm gayle king with charlie rose in new york and norah o'donnell is in washington. norah when j.k. rowling arrived she stopped and signed a few autographs for people waiting in line. they were not disappointed. >> good morning, gayle. i'm sorry not to meet her in person. big fan. i want to talk about 50 years ago this week many people were afraid that the u.s. and the soviet union were about to start world war iii and this morning some experts said the debate over iran's nuclear program has the potential to become just as serious as the cuban missile crisis. bill plante is here with me to take a look back. good morning. >> good morning. it is hard to overstate just how tense the situation was between the u.s. and the soviet union 50 years ago. and just how close we came to nuclear war. >> the purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the western hemisphere. >> when president kennedy told the nation in october 1962 that

the soviets were putting nuclear missiles in cuba, the announcement came as a shock. >> remember sitting at the screen staring at it. >> me too. >> me too. >> what was the reaction? >> there was some panic. people ran to grocery stores and took all the bread and the milk and, you know -- once the speech was given we all said oh, my god and it was the scariest week of our lives. >> what americans couldn't have known is that the crisis in the caribbean had already been per could late for a week after a u-2 spy plane detected missile sites being set up in cuba. inside the white house the tension had been building. president kennedy had assembled his team, top advisers, diplomats, military brass and his brother the attorney general. robert kennedy's recently released handwritten notes detail the options being considered. >> they talk about the case for action, case against, case for doing something, for doing

nothing. there's nomar begin for error here. >> nomar begin for error because the wrong move might trig ear launch of the missiles which could easily target washington or new york. on white house recordings the president can be heard wondering if disaster might be averted by offering the soviets a missile swap. >> if we said to khruschchev that, we have to take action against it. but if you begin to pull them out we'll take ours out of turkey. >> the president's first choice was a naval blockade. soviet ships didn't challenge the blockade but construction of the missile sites continued. the joint chiefs wanted to bomb the missiles, but kennedy resisted. >> if we go into cuba we have to all realize that we are taking a chance that these missiles, which are ready to fire won't be fired. so that's -- is that really a gamble we should take? in any case we are preparing to take it. >> it's a gamble jfk never had

to take. khruschchev sent a private letter saying if u.s. promises not attack cuba he would pull out the cuban missiles but the very next day khruschchev upped the ante. >> he will remove soviet missiles in cuba if we remove our missiles in turkey. >> jfk -- >> jfk said he cannot turn down the public offer. it's impossible. and what are we going to be if we end up in war over some useless missiles in turkey. every single person in the room opposes that position. >> what do they want to do? >> they want to turn the offer down, and instead force khruschchev back to the friday night proposal. >> complicating tissue a you-2 plane was shot down over cuba killing a pilot and generating calls for retaliation. in the end kennedy finessed

khruschchev. publicly promising not to invade cuba while privately agreeing to remove missiles from turkey and the crisis was over. >> we had never been as close to nuclear war as we were in 1962. >> today the players are different. this time it's the u.s. and israel wary of a nuclear iran. but the fear is just as genuine, which begs the question -- >> what would jfk do? >> he would being intensely interested in finding a space, an alternative that might have the characteristic of being better than attacking or better than letting iran become a nuclear state. >> today's confrontation with iran is like the cuban missile crisis in slow motion. big difference of course is that 50 years ago there were only two major players, the u.s. and the soviets. today there are three. the u.s., israel and iran, which makes a secret face saving

solution like the one reached on cuba a lot more difficult. >> bill, we've learned over the years more about what the soviets intention were for putting those missiles in cuba in the first place, right? >> that's right. record shows that castro was worried about another american invasion because this was happening a year and a half after the bay of pigs. the soviets put the missiles in. papers show neither khruschchev nor kennedy wanted any kind of nuclear confrontation. >> what lessons can be learned from the cuban missile crisis. i'm reminded how many military advisers were advising kennedy to bomb them. and he resisted that. >> there was a solution reached in secret between two powers. the different today is you have three major players. iran, the israelites, israel and the u.s. that makes a secret solution of any kind a lot more difficult. >> no doubt. bill, thank you very much.

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♪ >> "harry potter and the deathly hallows" part two is part of a worldwide phenomenon. books, movies, merchandising, theme park started with a young orphan with a magical destiny. the seven harry potter books sold 450 million books sold in 73 languages and inspired eight movies. >> fans have been waiting for j.k. rowling's next project. now we have tans. her first adult novel "the

casual vacancy." welcome. >> thank you. >> back to harry potter for one moment. are your happy with the movies? >> yeah. >> did justice to what you had in your mind? >> definitely. wonderful experience. it really was. >> will you go back? >> to harry? >> yes. >> i always said i won't say never, but i have no plans. i think harry's story is pretty much done. >> what's amazing ten years, it all happened in ten years. >> yeah. yeah. ten very big years. it felt like another lifetime. >> you went from middle class to poor to before that. >> i've had a very strange life. >> interests you. >> poverty interests me having been very poor and clearly that formed this book. >> lots of people, husbands and wives are fighting each other, teachers and students, poor and

rich. >> yeah. well there's no one really rich in this book. it's a small town in the south of england, and, yes, you're right there's a good deal of conflict in there surrounding what we call a counselor state. what you call a counselor state, is it social housing? >> yeah. there's a casual vacancy deemed have occurred when a local counselor fails to make declaration of office within a proper time or when his never resignation occurs or on the day. >> did you feel pressure when you were writing this book? because so many people were waiting and anticipating. it's such a departure from what you've done. did you feel self-imposed pressure? >> yes and no. obviously i was aware that people were expecting and waiting and people were asking me all the time, literally in

the streets what are you doing. but i was relishing having a private world in my head that no one knew about. it was fun. it was wonderful. it was a very enjoyable writing experience. >> like the title casual vacancy. explain the title and the premise of thor to for those who didn't spend the weekend writing "the casual vacancy." >> as charlie just said "the casual vacancy" is a counsel that has vacancy. for me it has other meanings. everyone in this book has some vacancy in their lives that they are attempting to fill. >> does it make it dark? >> think it's funny, but it's dark humor. and there are places where, yeah, i say it becomes quite dark. but then people who read harry potter know i can do dark. >> i know -- we have to say i was so touched when i came to work this morning and there were a group of at least six, when i got here, women who had been

here since 8:00 the night before waiting four. >> amazing. >> said to them why are you here? she said because she changed our lives. how? she taught us love, friendship and loyalty. it's something society doesn't do fours. i was so touched by their love four. >> it makes me feel very emotional. incredible to hear. >> they have love for your. what do they mean to you? >> everything. obviously. to have people who understand your work to that degree and these are people who grew up with my book. so they occupy a special place in their lives for that reason. i think the things you see, things that meant a out there when you're a teenager particularly will mean a lot to you. >> it was said million of adults will recall their initiation to literature with a little touch of harry in the night.

>> most beautiful thing to say. but he had a turn of phrase. >> end in "the casual vacancy" you're still writing about teenage angst. that resonates with you. it does. maybe part of me is stuck in adolescence. i'm drawn to adolescence and writing about adolescence. in this book there's five very different teenagers, three girls, two boys a lot around whom the actions centers. >> during the olympics that you were given a very prominent role and you were nervous. >> how could i not be nervous? >> you are j.k. rowling. >> that's a very kind thing to say but that's not what was going through my mine. >> what was that experience like for you? >> it was simultaneously terrifying and one of the most wonderful thing i've ever done in my life. it was wonderful. and the british aren't very good at celebrating themselves.

if we have quite a complex view about ourselves and that was one evening where we got it right and celebrated being british in a way that we felt comfortable with and it was such an honor. >> having that experience and having all the money and all the success and all the fans, what do you wish for now? >> what everyone wishes for. i wish my children to grow up healthy and happy. i wish that i will be happy if i can just keep working. you know, for me writing is nearly everything. it's not absolutely everything because my family is important to me. but i need network. i need to write. >> do you get ideas wherever you go. you move around the world -- >> yeah. definitely. >> do you have an idea right now with charlie and i as you're sitting here? >> no. i think you should be glad to know we're concentrating on what we're doing now. i'm not concentrating on what i should write next. >> i can't say enough about the

women who were out there that said you changed their lives. for many people to make that kind of impact -- we can go our whole lives and not make a difference and here you have with millions of people. >> it's an amazing thing to hear. when i hear that from people i meet i never come up with an adequate response because -- literally my heart is too full to say that's -- i've had people say hogwarts was a safe place to go, people who weren't having the happiest time. >> congratulations and now "the casual vacancy" you'll get a whole other audience. >> i will.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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olympicians and they compete in different sports but surfing has never been one of them. as mark strassman reports one mom in florida is making waves to get her favorite sport into the competition. >> let's get your board. >> reporter: surfers know every board is unique and so is every kid. 11-year-old emily foster has down syndrome. she was learning how to catch a wave in florida's special olympics, 100 surfers competed all of them with special needs. this event was a vision of jennifer rowlette reneau. she won a college basketball scholarship. she medaled in 97 competitions and was a member of the 1990 u.s. national surfing team.

at first she was one of the only women surfing florida's coast. >> you surfed for the first time when you were 17. were you hooked right away? >> first wave. first wave. paddle out. i knew i had a grin, i conscience it like yesterday. ear to ear. i said i'm doing this for the rest of my life. >> reporter: she's after another first. to get the national special olympics to certify it as an event. reilly her first grader was born with down syndrome. >> she has a smile. it's not what we planned but she's here and our lives are better for it. >> there you go. >> reporter: reneau taught reilly how to surf at age 1. >> i'm a surfer girl. >> there's no reason why she can't enjoy this. >> absolutely. she may not be the strongest

padler, but she's more than capable. >> reporter: she created "smiley riley's beach bash," an annual event for kids with down syndrome and their families. it led special olympics to include surfing. >> she understands. she has the knowledge of being able to deal with a special needs athlete. and she also has the knowledge to understand what their limitations are and she can push them knowing full well she has a special needs child that she pushes too. >> reporter: reneau is working to get other states like california to hold competitions like this. if that happens the national special olympics told her the next step is for surfing to become a demonstration sport at a future summer games. >> how commitrd you to making this happen? >> i'm going to do whatever i'm able to do. not just kids with down syndrome but kids with autism and

developmental delays. >> emily foster rode her wave back to her thrilled family. for cbs "this morning," mark strassman in cocoa beach, florida. it remind me of the old line that what you can imagine you can do. >> you can do. yes. every time i see a special olympics story, charlie, i'm amazed and marvel what they can do and it remind me of eunice shriver and what she started. look at where it is today. >> we wish jennifer well and "smiley riley". she's inspiring a lot of people. we wish them well. >> come back to new york, norah. >> see you tomorrow. >> up next your local news when we see you tomorrow right here on cbs "this morning". ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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u.s. ambassador chris steves. among those in tanned dance under the city rotunda will be diane feinstein. it is open to the public. monday how about that weather forecast. here's lawrence karnow. >> hard to tell, we have a lot of thick fog in many spots. the fog is going to lift and we are looking at mostly sunny skies as we head toward the afternoon. high pressure is building in and the next few days is going to be nice outside. inland, 60s and 70s around the bay. 60s out toward the coast. the offshore wind kicks in, beautiful to the coastline. 70s at the beaches, time saver traffic is coming up next. >> no mommy no!

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good morning, we have some breaking tuesday in san francisco, it's -- news in san francisco, a specific package at ucf medical center. it's a shoe box with a device and a note. it is having traffic implications. cars are being rerouted on pernasis between 3rd and 4th 4th while police investigate and see whether the package is a hazard. and there's bus lines, the 6 and the 43.